Political Economy of East Asia
Spring 2015
Thursday 9:55-12:30
Classroom H6206
Professor Dingping Guo
E-mail: guodp@fudan.edu.cn
Phone: (86-21) 55665425
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course is designed to introduce and analyze the political and economic developments in
East Asian countries and areas in order to help students better understand the rise of East Asia
and its impact on the world. For the purposes of this course, East Asia is defined as the
region encompassing China, Korea, Japan and Southeast Asia (10+3). In today’s global
political economy, East Asia is one of the most dynamic and consequential regions along with
West Europe and North America. The political developments in East Asia are influenced by
the domestic factors such as socioeconomic changes and foreign factors such as American
East Asian policies and globalization process.
The course will start with the analysis of the emergence of East Asia, exploring the so-called
East Asian political and economic development model, its strengths and shortcomings. Then
we will analyze the political developments and their characteristics of the main East Asian
countries and areas, focusing on Japan, Korea, Singapore and Taiwan, China. Finally we will
discuss the regional cooperation and its future.
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
(1)Students will be expected to acquire knowledge and understanding of:
a) Major theories in explaining the political economy in East Asia
b) The dynamics and process of East Asian political and economic developments
c) The strengths and limits of the East Asian development model
d) The Asian values and their implications for the Asian style politics
e) The dynamics and process of regional cooperation in East Asia
(2)The teaching methods should facilitate the development of cognitive and presentational
skills including:
a) The delivery of structured oral presentations
b) Participation in group discussions and research works
c) Individual research at postgraduate level
CONDUCT OF THE COURSE
(1) Each class will be a mixture of lecture, article or chapter review, discussion, and group
activities.
(2) Invited guest professor will give lectures, if possible.
GRADING CRITERIA:
Your grade will be evaluated based on the following criteria:
Participation
Presentation
Research Paper
20%
30%
50%
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TOTAL
100%
Students will be graded as follows:
A= Achievement outstanding relative to the level necessary to meet course
requirements.
B= Achievement significantly above the level necessary to meet course requirements.
C= Achievements meeting the basic course requirements.
D= Does not fully meet basic course requirements, but worthy of credit.
F= Performance failing to meet course requirements.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS
(1) Participation: Students is expected to attend class, complete all required readings
and significantly contribute to the seminar discussions each week (if there is no
spontaneous discussion, I will direct it: expect to be called). Participation in class
discussions is an essential part of the class
(2) Presentation: You should prepare 10-minutes Powerpoint presentations. They
should produce a critical discussion of the literature for that week, not just summarize
the readings. You should address the main points in the readings but also present an
argument focusing on particular issues (theoretical weaknesses, empirical problems,
things that have been ignored, ways in which the argument could be improved, etc).
In doing so, you need conduct some additional research by consulting other literature
not listed in the syllabus. They should be sent to professor and the rest of the class by
e-mail before class.
(3) Research Paper: You should write a term research paper. The research paper
should do the following: formulate a puzzle that addresses one of the theoretical
issues emphasized during the course; review the literature related to this topic; present
an argument (not a description or a summary); and explore a solution to the puzzle by
presenting some original research (you have to present evidence, whether it is
statistics, historical facts or arguments in other books or articles, that has not been
already used in class).
a) The research paper should be about 20 double-spaced pages.
b) The paper should have references to at least 10 articles or chapters.
c) A research proposal of one A4 page is due by the end of April.
d) Final version is due by the end of May, 2015, in both email and print forms.
Make-up exams or extensions will not be granted except in case of
emergency. Late work will be penalized by one third of a grade for each day
that the assignment is late (e.g., a B to B-).
PLAGIARISM
Plagiarism will not be tolerated. Plagiarism is "a piece of writing that has been copied
from someone else and is presented as being your own work." This includes ideas as
well as specific phrases, sentences or paragraphs. There are two basic and universal
rules regarding the use of information in professional and, especially, academic
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writing:
a) If you use the language of your source, you must quote it exactly, enclose it
in quotation marks, and cite the source.
b) If you use ideas or information that are not common knowledge, you must
cite the source.
ESSAY AND PRESENTATION CRITERIA
In assessing essays your tutor will use the following criteria:
Focus – How well does the essay address the question set?
Structure – How clear is the argument of the essay? Is the sequence of points
coherent, and is it well signposted?
Theoretical content – Does the essay show a good understanding of relevant
concepts and theories?
Empirical content – How well is the essay’s argument supported by examples?
Research effort – Has a wide range of appropriate sources been consulted?
Presentation – Are the text and references well presented, in an approved
format? (see ‘style sheet for essays’, below)
STYLE SHEET FOR ESSAYS
Essays must be submitted in accordance with a recognized style. Whichever style you
adopt you must use it consistently. The style described below is the style preferred by
the Department of Politics. If you are not familiar with an alternative you should
adopt this style. If there is anything in these guidelines that you do not understand, ask
before you begin writing.
References
All references and notes should be sequentially numbered and placed at the bottom of
the page or the end of the text. Indicate the place in the text with superscript numerals.
References should take the following form:
First citation:
Peter Calvert, Revolution (London, Pall Mall, 1970), pp.7-8
John Dunn, ‘Revolution’, in Terence Ball, James Farr, Russel L. Hanson (eds.),
Political Innovation and Conceptual Change (Cambridge, Cambridge University
Press,1986), pp.333-56
Vernon F. Snow, ‘The Concept of Revolution in Seventeenth—Century England’,
The Historical Journal, Vol.5 (1962), pp.167-90
Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, The Communist Manifesto
[http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/docs/commman.htm] 30 August 2000
Second citation:
Calvert, Revolution, p.5
Dunn, ‘Revolution’, p.337
Snow, ‘The Concept of Revolution in Seventeenth—Century England’, p.170
Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, The Communist Manifesto
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Example
The literature on the Nazi period is now so extensive that even specialists have
difficulty keeping up with it. Possible starting points include interpretations of the
German ‘problem’, for example by Harold James.1 Alternatively, one can begin with
the standard biographies of Adolf Hitler.2 At a later stage it will be necessary to
consult the more specialized literature on, for example, the evolution of Hitler’s
foreign policy. These studies will throw light upon our general understanding of
Hitler. Thus, Stokes points out that Hitler’s foreign policy was guided by a more
coherent Weltanschauung than was once assumed.3 Elsewhere he emphasizes the
need to place Hitler in the context of other Nazis.4 There are also collections of
primary sources on various aspects of the period, including some available on the
internet.5 At the end of the day, however, it is the demonic figure of Adolf Hitler who
will continue to fascinate students of the period.6
1. Harold James, A German Identity 1770-1990 (London, Weidenfeld and Niclsson,
1989).
2. See Joachim C. Fest, Hitler (Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1962) and Alan Bullock,
Hitler: A Study in Tyranny (Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1962).
3. Geoffrey Stokes, ‘The Evolution of Hitler’s Ideas on Foreign Plolicy’, in Peter
Stachure (ed.), Shaping the Nazi State (London, Macmillan,1978), p.22 For the
central text of this new interpretation see Eberhard Jackel, Hitler’s World View
(Cambridge,Mass., Harvard University Press, 1981).
4. Geoffrey Stokes, ‘ “More Unfinished Business?” Some Comments on the
Evolution of the Nazi Foreign Policy Programme’, European Studies Review, Vol.
8 (1978), pp.425-42.
5. See, for example, the transcript of ‘The Trial of Adolf Eichmann’
[http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/people/e/eichmann-adolf/transcripts/] 20 August
2000
6. This despite the fact that Fst regards Hitler’s personality as being of little interest.
Hitler, p.6
Citation Guide for Internet Source
Examples
Limb, Peter. ‘Relationships between Labour and African Nationalist/Liberation
Movements in Southern Africa’
[http://neal.ctstateu.edu/history/world_history/archives/limb-1.html], 22May 1998.
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NOTE: it is very important to give the date when you accessed the site and obtained
information – either by reading, down-loading or printing material from the web.
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SCHEDULE AND READINGS
Week 1. Introduction to the course
No readings.
Week 2. Political analysis of economic developments in East Asia
*Chalmers Johnson, “Political institutions and economic performance: the
government-business relationship in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan”, Frederic C.
Deyo (ed.), “The Political Economy of the New Asian Industrialism”, Cornell
University Press, 1987, pp.136-164.
The World Bank. “The East Asian Miracle”, Oxford University Press, 1993, pp.79103 (Chapter 2) and pp. 157-185 (Chapter 4)
*Stephan Haggard, “Pathways from the Periphery: The Politics of Growth in the
Newly Industrializing Countries”. Cornell University Press, 1990. Chapter Ten:
Authoritarianism and Democracy: Political Institutions and Economic Growth
Revisited, pp.254-271.
*Ezra F. Vogel, “The Four Little Dragons: The Spread of Industrialization in East
Asia”, Harvard University Press, 1991, Chapter 5: “Toward an Explanation”, pp.83112.
*Bruce Cumings, “The Asian Crisis, Democracy, and the End of ‘Late’
Development”, T. J. Pempel, ed. The Politics of Asian Economic Crisis, Cornell
University Press, 1999, pp 17-44.
*Edward Kwon, “Managing A Financial Crisis: A Comparative Political Economic
Analysis of the United States and South Korea”, The Journal of East Asian Affairs,
Vol. 25, No. 2, Fall/Winter 2011, pp. 55-84.
Week 3. Political transition from authoritarianism to democracy in East Asia
* Samuel Huntington, The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth
Century, University of Oklahoma Press, 1991, “Chapter 1: What?”, pp. 3-30.
* Minxin Pei, “The fall and rise of democracy in East Asia”, Larry Diamond & Marc
F. Plattner (ed), “Democracy in East Asia”, The John Hopkins University Press, 1998,
pp.57-78
*Kanishka Jayasuriya, “Political Economy of Democratization in East Asia”, Asian
Perspective, Vol.18, No.2, Fall-Winter, 1994, pp.141-180.
*Clark D. Neher, “Asian Style Democracy”, Asian Survey, Vol.34, No.11, November
1994.
*Russell J. Dalton & Doh Chul Shin, ed. Citizens, Democracy and Markets Around
the Pacific Rim: Congruence Theory and Political Culture. Oxford University Press,
2006. Chapter 4: Democratic Aspirations and Social Modernization, pp. 75-112.
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*Robert W. Compton, Jr. East Asian Democratization: Impacts of Globalization,
Culture and Economy, Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers, 2000. Chapter 3:
“The Developmental State, Political Elites, and Asian Democracy”, pp. 51-70.
Week 4. East Asian culture and development
*Winston Davis, “Religion and Development: Weber and the East Asian Experience”,
Myron Weiner and Samuel P. Huntington, ed. Understanding Political Development,
Prospect Heights, Illinois: Waveland Press, Inc. 1987, pp.221-280.
*Lucian W. Pye. “Asian Power and Politics: The Cultural Dimensions of Authority”,
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1985, pp.1-30 (Chapter 1)
*Bilahari Kausikan. “The ‘Asian Value’ Debate: A View from Singapore”, Larry
Diamond & Marc F. Plattner (ed), “Democracy in East Asia”, The John Hopkins
University Press, 1998, pp.17-27.
*De-yong Ma and Shung-Si Ahn, “Stocktaking Social Capital in the ‘Confucian
Culture Zone’ of East Asia: A Comparative Analysis on Trust, Tolerance and
Cooperation”, Political Science in Asia, Vol.2, No.2 (Summer, 2007), pp.75-102.
*Russell J. Dalton & Doh Chul Shin, ed. Citizens, Democracy and Markets Around
the Pacific Rim: Congruence Theory and Political Culture. Oxford University Press,
2006. Chapter 8: Exploring Weber’s Theory of Capitalism in Confucian East Asian,
pp.159-180.
*Robert W. Compton, Jr. East Asian Democratization: Impacts of Globalization,
Culture and Economy, Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers, 2000. Chapter 2:
“The Cultural Origins of Asian Democracy”, pp. 21-49.
*O. Yul Kwon, “Does Culture Matter for Economic Development in Korea?” The
Journal of East Asian Affairs, Vol. 25, No. 2, Fall/Winter 2011, pp. 163-182.
Week 5. Chinese model of economic and political development
* Merle Goldman & Roderick MacFarquhar, “Dynamic Economy, Declining PartyState”, in Merle Goldman & Roderick MacFarquhar, ed. The Paradox of China’s
Post-Mao Reforms, Harvard University Press, 1999, pp.3-29.
* Minxin Pei, China’s Trapped Transition. Harvard University Press, 2006. Chapter
One: Why Transitions get trapped: A Theoretical Framework, pp. 17-44
*Susan Shirk, China: Fragile Superpower. Oxford University Press, 2007. Chapter 1:
“Strong Abroad but Fragile at Home”, pp.1-12.
*Dingping Guo, “Chinese Model of Political Development: Comparative Perspective”,
“The Journal of East Asian Affairs”, (Institute for national Security strategy, Seoul,
Korea), Volume 21, Number 2, Fall/Winter 2007, pp.117-138.
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*Jun Zhang and Yuan Gao, “Term Limits and Rotation of Chinese Governors: do they
matter to economic growth?”, Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy, Volume 13,
Number 3, 2008. pp. 274-297.
*Shaun Breslin, “Democratizing One-Party Rule in China”, Peter Burnell and Richard
Youngs, ed. New Challenges to Democratization, New York and London: Routledge,
2010, pp.134-152.
*Dingping Guo, “Institutional Accumulation and Gradual Substitution: The Dynamics
of Developmental Democracy in China” (in English), in The Institutional Dynamics of
China’s Great Transformation, edited by Xiaoming Huang, Routledge, 2011.
Week 6. Japan’s economic miracle and democratic experience
*Steven K. Vogel, Japan Remodeled: How Government and Industry Are Reforming
Japanese Capitalism. Cornell University Press, 2006. Chapter 1: “The Japanese
Model and Institutional Change”, pp. 1-21. Chapter 7: “Japan’s New Model”, pp.
205-224
* Makoto Iokibe, “Japan’s Democratic Experience”, Larry Diamond & Marc F.
Plattner (ed), “Democracy in East Asia”, The John Hopkins University Press, 1998,
pp.79-95.
*Chalmers Johnson, Japan: Who Governs? The Rise of the Developmental State. W.
W. Norton & Company, 1995. chapter 6: “Japan: Who Governs? An Essay on Official
Bureaucracy”, pp. 115-140.
*T. J. Pempel, Regime Shift: Comparative Dynamics of the Japanese Political
Economy. Cornell University Press, 1998. Chapter 2: “Japan in the 1960s:
Conservative Politics and Economic Growth”, pp.42-80. Chapter 5: “Japan in the
1990s: Fragmented Politics and Economic Turmoil”, pp. 136-169.
*Keiichi Tsunekawa, “Old Japan, New Japan: Explaining Changing Nature of Japan’s
Political Economy”, Political Science in Asia (Seoul, Korea) Volume 3, Number 1/2,
Winter 2007, pp. 37-59.
*Ikuo Kabashima and Gill Steel, Changing Politics in Japan, Ithaca and London:
Cornell University Press, 2010. Chapter 7: “Voters and the Democratic Party of
Japan”, pp. 128-149.
*Georg D. Blind and Stefania Lottantivon Mandach, “Decades not Lost, but Won:
Increased Employment, Higher Wages, and More Equal Opportunities in the Japanese
Labour Market”, Social Science Japan Journal, Vol. 18, No. 1, 2015, pp. 63-88.
Week 7. Economic development and democratic transition in Korea
*Kang Ro Lee, “Bureacratic-Mobilizational Regime: The YUSHIN System in South
Korea”, Asian Perspective, Vol. 14, No.2, Fall-Winter 1990, pp.195-230.
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*Doh Chull Shin, “Democractic Governance in South Korea: The Perspectives of
Ordinary Citizens and Their Elected Representatives”, Japanese Journal of Political
Science (Cambridge University Press), Volume 4 (2), November 2003, pp. 215-240.
*Byung-Kook Kim, “Korea’s Crisis of Success”, Larry Diamond & Marc F. Plattner
(ed), “Democracy in East Asia”, The John Hopkins University Press, 1998, pp.113132.
*Chung-Si Ahn, “National Democracy and Local Governance: Appraising a Decade
of Local Democracy in South Korea”, in New Development in Local Democracy and
Decentralization in East Asia, edited by Chung-Si Ahn, Seoul National University
Press,2005, pp.23-67.
*Hyug Baeg Im, “Better Democracy, Better Economic Growth? South Korea”,
International Political Science Review (Sage Publications, 2011), Volume 32,
Number 5, pp. 579-597.
*WooJin Kang, “Regional party system, causal attribution, and economic voting in
new democracies: The case of the 2007 Korean presidential election”, International
Political Science Review, Volume 34 Number 2, March 2013, pp. 173-190.
Week 8. City-state and economic miracle in Singapore
*Chan Heng Chee, “Singapore: Coping with Vulnerability”, in James W. Morley, ed.
Driven by Growth: Political Change in the Asia-Pacific Region, M. E. Sharpe. Inc,
1993, pp.219-241.
*Ezra F. Vogel, “The Four Little Dragons: The Spread of Industrialization in East
Asia”, Harvard University Press, 1991, Chapter 4: “Hong Kong and Singapore”,
pp.66-82.
*Philippe Regnier, Singapore: City-State in South-East Asia, Honolulu: University of
Hawaii Press, 1987. Chapter 7: “A City-State Facing the Challenges of Survival and
Viability”, pp. 229-261; Chapter 8: “Conclusion”, pp. 263-272.
*Raj Vasil, Governing Singapore: A History of National Development and
Democracy. Allen & Unwin, 2000. Conclusion: National Development and
Democracy, pp. 233-252.
Week 9. Economic development and democratic transition in Taiwan
*Ezra F. Vogel, “The Four Little Dragons: The Spread of Industrialization in East
Asia”, Harvard University Press, 1991, Chapter 2: “Taiwan”, pp.13-41.
*Tun-Jen Cheng, “Taiwan in Democratic Transition”, in James W. Morley, ed.
Driven by Growth: Political Change in the Asia-Pacific Region, M. E. Sharpe. Inc,
1993, pp.193-218.
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*Lynn T. White III, “Taiwan’s External Relations: Identity versus Security”, in
Samuel S. Kim, ed. The International Relations of Northeast Asia. Rowman &
Littlefield Publishers, Inc.2004. pp. 301-330.
*Min-sho Ho, “The Rise and Fall of Leninist Control in Taiwan’s Industry”, The
China Quarterly, March 2007, No. 189, pp. 162-179.
*Yu-tzung Chang, Yun-han Chu and Min-hua Huang, “Procedural Quality only?
Taiwanese Democracy Reconsidered”, International Political Science Review (Sage
Publications, 2011), Volume 32, Number 5, pp. 598-619.
Week 10. Regional cooperation in East Asia
*Jusuf Wanandi, “The Architecture of Security Cooperation for a Durable Regional
Security in East Asia”, in Xuetong Yan and Fangyin Zhou, ed. Security Cooperation
in East Asia, Peking University Press, 2004. pp. 152-165.
*T. J. Pempel, “East Asia: Emerging Webs of Regional Connectedness”, in Xuetong
Yan and Fangyin Zhou, ed. Security Cooperation in East Asia, Peking University
Press, 2004. pp.221-258.
*Andrew MacIntyre, “Politics, Strategy and International Economic Cooperation in
the Asia-Pacific Region”, in Xuetong Yan and Fangyin Zhou, ed. Security
Cooperation in East Asia, Peking University Press, 2004. pp.259-273.
*Vinod K. Aggarwal and Min Gyo Koo, “An Institutional Path: Community Building
in Northeast Asia”, G. John Ikenberry and Chung-in Moon, ed. The United States and
Northeast Asia: Debates, Issues and New Order, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,
Inc. 2008, pp. 285-307.
*Edward J. Lincoln, “The Asian Regional Economy”, David Shambaugh and Michael
Yahuda, ed. International Relations of Asia, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
2008. pp. 277-299.
*Chapter 6: “A Deepening Web of Regional Connectedness”, Kent Calder and Min
Ye, The Making of Northeast Asia, Stanford University Press, 2010, pp. 129-162.
Week 10. Final Exam
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